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> it has not been established in this thread that I consider Biblical stories to be literally historically true.

Fair enough. However that PoV is endemic to Abrahamism, if not on a personal level of individual belief, at the institutional level and in the way that it's promoted to people both within and without the religions.

If you don't take it literally though, then it might as well be on the shelf next to Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Spiderman, rather than given some privileged place in a special category of fiction all to it's own. Other than the cultural dimension, it has no more inherent wisdom and moral worth to it than any other great work of fiction.